 | | 2015-05-28 01:41
From blog The Secondhand Years
Some sunny day
A couple of weeks ago, it was the 70th anniversary of VE Day . Life during wartime is not an experience many of us have shared or can even imagine, but for people like my mum, it remains a powerful memory. Here she is; Nurse Rhonie King. She worked at St James' Hospital in Balham, London. She recently sent me two extracts copied from her diary kept at the time. This is from 1944, when she was 20; The long wailing sirens sounded, warning everyone - an air raid alert... I was looking out of my third floor window [in the Nurses' Home] and heard a doodlebug* approaching our hospital. I prayed it would go over, but the engine cut out, it...
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